Norton Thanks Majority Leader Hoyer for Becoming an Original Cosponsor of the D.C. Statehood Bill in Next Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) for becoming today an original cosponsor of the District of Columbia statehood bill in the 117th Congress, which begins in January 2021.
"Majority Leaders are very selective about bills they choose to cosponsor, which makes it an even greater honor to receive Leader Hoyer's enthusiastic support as an original cosponsor of the D.C. statehood bill," Norton said. "He is only the second Majority Leader in either chamber to ever bring the D.C. statehood bill to the floor for a vote, and the first ever to pass it, which occurred in June. Leader Hoyer has taken a personal interest in statehood for the District, even writing a moving op-ed in the Washington Post supporting the bill. I look forward to working with him as an original cosponsor of D.C. statehood next Congress."
Norton has secured 173 original cosponsors of the bill in the House for the next Congress, which breaks the record she set this Congress (155), even though there will be fewer total House Democrats next Congress.